Here is yet another story illustrating why the Zombie Rights movement is a natural ally to other oppressed minorities and their own quests for civil rights:

Summerville High School and Fort Dorchester High School are lucky enough to have a Gay Straight Alliance even though they’re located in the the relatively socially conservative state of South Carolina. Unfortunately, they almost stopped having one recently when the school board tried to shut it down after student complaints about its existence. Of course, they couldn’t just shut down the GSA because they didn’t like it; this is 2011, the era of strange/dubious excuses to mask homophobia.

Instead, they asserted that student clubs are meant to have a “curricular orientation,” and shouldn’t be focused around “personal identity.” One board member goes so far as to say that non-academic clubs distract students from their studies. So instead, the administration tried to shut down every non-academic club or organization, which included the Zombie Appreciation Club, the Prom Committee, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Video Games Club, among others.

Shocking, isn’t it? First, the rampant homophobia and hate that would lead a school to discriminate against a harmless club which promotes tolerance and understanding, and second, that they would shut down what might be the only club centered around APPRECIATING Zombies in the entire country in order to do it!

Fortunately, their plan did not succeed, and as yet, these clubs still exist in South Carolina. But the story serves as a cogent reminder of what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. taught us so many years ago:

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

It’s so true. The Zombie Rights Campaign is on your side, Gay Straight Alliance of Summerville and Fort Dorchester high schools.

Tags: Academia, Social Justice

This entry was posted by John Sears on Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 at 8:35 pm and is filed under Zombie Media, ZRC News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.